Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

At 03:43 PM 12/26/2007, David Opderbeck wrote:
>Janice said: The key to sound environment management is property rights.
>
>Unless, as Coase pointed out, there are high transaction costs (as
>when there are many individual property owners whose rights need to
>be cleared -- e.g., where there are numerous individual residences
>near a factory) or impediments to bargaining (as in the
>international context where politics interfere), right? And this
>would include strong enforcement mechanisms, including easy access
>to the courts for individuals whose rights are violated,
>correct? Or are you advocating tradeable emissions credits, which
>are the sine qua non of Coasian environmental economics?

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".....<http://www.ecoworld.com/home//blog/2007/06/21/vaclav-klaus-skeptic/>Vaclav
Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, and someone who suffered
under communist tyranny, has put it thus: "When I study and analyse
environmental indicators concerning my own country and when I compare
them with the situation in the communist era, there is an incredible
improvement. The improvement is not because of 'collective action'
you advocate (it existed in the communist era), but because of
freedom and of free markets."

It's not easy to articulate the principles of free market
environmentalism. When the air and water is fouled by pollution, the
natural emotional reaction is to blame the polluters and demand
regulations. By extension, the polluters are assumed to be motivated
by profit, which in-turn is demonized. But it's not so simple. Profit
creates wealth, and wealth funds environmental restoration. Central
planning - communism - destroys wealth, destroys incentives, and the
practical result is abominable pollution, worse than anything we've
ever seen in the capitalist west, and harder to correct.

Free market environmentalism is what the economists at the Property
and Environment Research Center (<http://www.perc.org>PERC) have been
studying and promoting for over 15 years. When we began publishing
EcoWorld in 1993, we quickly came across the work PERC was doing and
we've been following them and learning from them ever since. Their
message is more important now than ever, as the emotional juggernaut
called global warming threatens to drown out reason and demands
immediate and extraordinary measures.

Incentives are not easy to formulate, and require governments to
referee. But regulations and takings are even more problematic - in
the extreme they lead to environmental devastation exemplified by the
failed communist economies of Eastern Europe. The question is one of
emphasis, and free market environmentalism recognizes that private
property, ownership, stewardship, incentives, and the profit motive
properly channelled is superior to central planning. This recent
report by noted author Matt Ridley attests to his conversion to free
market environmentalism, something that even - indeed especially -
today's global warming alarmism should not consign to the list of
endangered ideologies. - Ed "Redwood" Ring

Much more: http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=434

~ Janice ... (Private property rights along with the right to the
self-defense of them is adhered to by those (including the Framers)
who embrace the biblical worldview. It is the unchanging backbone of
the Constitution. Our government is set up by "we the people" and
public servants are sworn to uphold and defend that Constitution on
our behalf.)

>On Dec 26, 2007 2:41 PM, Janice Matchett
><<mailto:janmatch@earthlink.net>janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
>At 12:49 PM 12/26/2007, Michael Roberts wrote:
>
>>Should we club together and get Janice a subscription? ~ Michael
>
>@ Why would I want a subscription to a cult magazine wherein I can
>tell you _exactly_ what will be in the various issues even before
>they're published? I can also tell you _exactly_ what inconvenient
>truths the well-known Marxist _globalist_ collectivists at EEN won't
>be publishing in any of the issues. Here's a sample:
>
>Hosea 4:1-3: "Hear the word of the LORD...because the LORD has a
>charge to bring against you who live in the land: "the land mourns
>because there is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery ...."
>
>Isa. 65: 17-23: "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth.
>The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to
>mind. ... They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant
>vineyards and eat their fruit. [No one will steal what they produce
>from them and give it to someone else in exchange for their vote].
>No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant
>and others eat. .... my chosen individuals will long enjoy the works
>of their hands. Individuals will not toil in vain [for a
>'collective'] .." says the LORD.
>
>Rev. 20: 12-13: "And I saw the dead, small and great, standing
>before God... And they were judged, EACH INDIVIDUAL, according to
>HIS [individual] works..."
>
>Rev. 21:1-8: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
>first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. .. . . He
>who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!' ..
>the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murders, sexually
>immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part
>in the second death [complete/total separation from what they hated
>( ie: all that is good) for eternity]."
>
>~ Janice ... who knows that one of the "good things" they hate is
>private individual property rights. The key to sound environment
>management is property rights.
><http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944220/posts?page=9#9%C2%A0>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944220/posts?page=9#9
>
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:steven.dale.martin@gmail.com>Steve Martin
>>To: <mailto:dopderbeck@gmail.com>David Opderbeck
>>Cc: <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>asA
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:24 PM
>>Subject: Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine
>>
>>Hi David,
>>
>>Thanks. That looks interesting. I also noticed that we (the ASA)
>>are a partner organization. See:
>><http://www.creationcare.org/partners.php>http://www.creationcare.org/partners.php.
>>Not sure what exactly the partnership entails.
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>On 12/26/07, David Opderbeck
>><<mailto:dopderbeck@gmail.com>dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Of possible interest to list members: I got a subscription to
>>Creation Care magazine for Christmas (
>><http://www.creationcare.org/magazine/>http://www.creationcare.org/magazine/).
>>Seems like a great publication
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Steve Martin (CSCA)
>><http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com/>http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com
>

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